The Impact of Childhood Social Skills and Self-Control Training on Economic and Noneconomic Outcomes: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment Using Administrative Data

IF 10.5 1区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS American Economic Review Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI:10.1257/aer.20200224
Y. Algan, Elizabeth Beasley, S. Côté, Jungwee Park, R. Tremblay, F. Vitaro
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A childhood intervention to improve the social skills and self-control of at-risk kindergarten boys in the 1980s had positive impacts over the life course: higher trust and self-control as adolescents; increased social group membership, education, and reduced criminality as young adults; and increased marriage and employment as adults. Using administrative data, we find this intervention increased average yearly employment income by about 20 percent and decreased average yearly social transfers by almost 40 percent. We estimate that $1 invested in this program around age 8 yields about $11 in benefits by age 39, with an internal rate of return of around 17 percent. (JEL I21, I26, I28, J13, J24, J31, Z13)
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儿童社会技能和自我控制训练对经济和非经济结果的影响:来自行政数据的随机实验证据
一项儿童干预对80年代幼儿园高危男孩社会技能和自我控制能力的改善在整个生命历程中具有积极的影响:青少年时期具有更高的信任和自我控制能力;增加社会团体成员,教育和减少犯罪的年轻人;成年人结婚和就业的增加。利用行政数据,我们发现这种干预使平均年就业收入增加了约20%,并使平均年社会转移支付减少了近40%。我们估计,8岁左右在这个项目上投资1美元,到39岁时将获得约11美元的收益,内部回报率约为17%。(j21, j26, j28, j13, j24, j31, z13)
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期刊介绍: The American Economic Review (AER) stands as a prestigious general-interest economics journal. Founded in 1911, it holds the distinction of being one of the nation's oldest and most esteemed scholarly journals in economics. With a commitment to academic excellence, the AER releases 12 issues annually, featuring articles that span a wide spectrum of economic topics.
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